Natural Solar Routine NSR

I was suffering from an acute time shortage syndrome!

At the end of day not much was being accomplished by me.

1. It is the sum and substance of the entire existence.
2. Consciousness needs time and space to exist and expand.
3. Consciousness is not the most important "resource", rather it is our life.

Although they are essentially infinite as the states/layers/waves in an ocean, but the most basic ones are:

1. Sleep
2. Awake

1. Like every new idea this sleep pattern will also be opposed.
2. This also does not fit the industrial (mass production factory worker) model.

We need to audit in order to plan time management of our precious daily life.

Following seems to work for me. 1 Day = 24 hours = 6 hours (sleep at night) + 8.5 (awake) + 1 hour (sleep during day) + 8.5 (awake)

In spite of all the conditioning and the circumstances we all are unique. Each one has a different natural time/sleep cycle at any given moment. If we discover and live according to our individual time/sleep cycle then we will be living in rhythm with nature and that will bring over all benefit to our lives.

This includes finer points like sleep(night)/wake(morning)/sleep(day)/wake(day)/food timings/work nature/health/age etc.

A torrent of creativity gushes out as chain of thoughts in morning so keep a scribble note-pad in mini-lamp (LED one with low brightness), torch, mobile, clock or even moon-light (near full moons!).

1. Because the person maintaining this routine will have strong urge to have short, precise, very refreshing and deep sleep, it may be best to keep the phone switched off or on auto answering mode during the sleep hours.
2. Also to enhance the over all time management I have requested all my expected callers to call me only during 6-8 PM in case they wish to talk to me on phone. Others I am informing them through email about my "phone incoming call timings". This is great help to concentrate creative work. Phone calls are intrusive random interrupts which can severely affect the productivity. This has been my experience your mileage may wary (YMMV).

1. As time becomes your friend its subtle nuances no longer raise frightening alarms to tighten you-up!
2. No alarms just sweet reminders like position of moon, stars (including Sun), sounds of birds, routine vehicles, vendors etc. You could even set soft low volume music or musical "alarms" to mark 3/4/5/6/7 AM. This way you need not look at watch/clock and thus can concentrate on your favorite activity.

1. Win-start is defined to start every fresh day with a winner's psychology.
2. Once you regularly achieve finish quickly in the mornings what use to be almost a full day's task, you will gain upper hand over the day. This positive winner psychology will set the ball rolling for the day at hand.

Tighter discipline makes life self stream aligned rather than ruthlessly forced/coerced/tricked/cajoled/seduced to flow with the "mainstream".

When you live life with creativity and contentment there will be bliss and certainly no tension!

This is naturally needed to heal/grow on daily basis.

1. Time is subtler than gross/physical world.
2. Meditation automatically happens when one is conscious of Time and starts living in Time rather than merely physical/gross manner.

1. Finally you can think (deeply) about your own life/self/actions/plans/creativity etc., rather than just react to external stimuli.
2. Gain valuable perspective, because during the hum-drum of the day it is not possible to gain a bird's eye view of the drift in life. While in the quiet morning hours after a nice sleep it is possible.

Even for hobby and fun we need time.

With surplus quality time in life there will be no pending work!

1. Individual variation in circumstances/factors/events/work-load can lead to variation in sleep/wake timings.
2. Work till you can work with full efficiency is the basic suggestion that is just plain common-sense. After that recharge for 45 minutes to an hour in day (Shavasana/sleep) and 6-7 hours in night sleep.
3. Outcome: This means working at peak efficiency giving tremendous boost to productivity.
4. One almost has 2 days in a single day. This means about 100% increase in available useful time!

You may ask "Can stress be ever useful?". Yes it can be. There is some thing called "optimum stress level" at which we work at maximum efficiency along with all other benefits to health etc. NSR sleep pattern seems to provide basis for this "optimum stress level" as is evident from experience.

1. Loneliness is one of the important most important problems faced by the elderly/senior citizens. However, when one adopts early in life, the habit of NSR: "Natural Solar Routine" one is much less likely to feel the loneliness. Here is why. As per NSR one is living "alone" every day for at-least 3-4 hours as most average (not normal!) people watch TV, work in artificial lights, sleep late at night, sleep till late in morning, do not take 30-60 min break before lunch starting at 11 AM.
2. So there is clearly a "social disconnect" with the peer group and/or family members as per NSR. This makes the person emotionally stable in the sense that one is equally adaptable to living with group and also alone, because one does it on daily basis. Therefore it becomes a habit.
3. Opinions can be divided but there seems to be need per day of some dose of pure "me time" alone for healing/meditation/introspection etc.
4. Being alone (circumstance) is not same as loneliness (psychological state) but willfully being alone daily as per NSR is likely to make one less susceptible to the miserable loneliness syndrome specially in the inevitable old age.
5. Loneliness is not a problem, our psychological response can be the problem when we are forced to be alone. NSR prepares one's psychology when faced with the inevitable/eventual state of being alone.

Once time is on your side, you shall find you have better grip and control over life.

Better time management > more efficiency > more quality/outcome > success > happiness > better psychology > better time management > …

Lead to cleaner intestines. This again lays foundation for health. From personal experience, it seems the natural cycle for bowel motions is after every 12 hours. For example once in the morning at 4 AM and once in the evening at 4 PM.

1. Break free from routine, be independent, be your own master. Live by yourself. No artificial/forced hurry, just your own natural pace.
2. Breaking away from herd may mean that you do not fit the rigid industrial society. This is natural and has individual variations. Whereas industrial design is based on the notion of forced (unnatural) mono culture (one size/routine fits all under compulsion/conditioning).

Any interaction with the society pulls one towards socially accepted routine/behavior. But these often manipulate and control and thus are often unnatural. For example late night work or watching TV can be termed as "normal" when in reality it is just the social average, while being exactly unhealthy/unnatural for being against solar routine.

1. Although one can reap huge numerous benefits of solar routine even if implemented "imperfectly". Imperfect in the sense of being partially socially disconnected with the immediate peers/family.
2. Industrial market driven society has affected both the family structure and routine resulting in an unnatural and dangerous mono-culture including nuclear family.
3. For perfect solar routine one has to necessarily divorce from the unnatural nuclear family design.
4. Samvargam/JHF provides platform for "creative independence" by redefining the family structure. Conventional nuclear family is leading to "destructive coupling" of individuals.

1. You will be consuming lesser amount of energy (AC/TV/Computer/Lights etc.) in the morning hours as one simply does not feel like using them.
2. Whereas 8 PM onwards one must switch on the lights etc. There must be deeper natural reason why this is so, but it is so.

"Human is a solar animal." (A deliberate punch on 'man is a social animal').

1. Ya nisha sarvabhutanam tasyam jaagriti samyami Yasyam jagarti bhutani sa nisha pashyato mune (Bhagavad Gita 2.69).
2. That which is night to all beings, in that state (of Divine Knowledge and Supreme Bliss) the God realized Yogi keeps awake, and that (the ever changing, transient worldly happiness) in which all beings keep awake is night to the seer.
3. Along with "higher" interpretations this verse is equally applicable to "ordinary" sleep on physical plane.

"Time can only be caught from front not from behind."

1. A simple example: It is easily possible to walk and be in the train just if you are in time. Whereas just one second after the train starts to move it becomes a very difficult/dangerous task to catch it.
2. Same is the situation with most of the events/tasks in life.

Heights great (wo)men achieved were not by sudden flights, but by toiling in night while their fellow (wo)men slept.